News and notes from around the interweb:
- Is United’s co-brand card going to offer a 70,000 mile signup bonus starting June 1?
- Delta bought a stake in CLEAR expedited security and is giving it free to Diamond members. It’s only in a handful of airports, what’s nice in a place like Denver is it basically lets you cut the PreCheck line which can otherwise back up.
- DC Circuit Court rules against Amtrak, ruling ‘that the due process of law is violated when a self-interested entity is “intrusted with the power to regulate the business . . . of a competitor.”’
- TSA still failing most tests so everything we’re going through is security theater when they don’t actually detect things that could be dangerous.
- American Airlines is being sued by the family of a passenger struck by lightning last summer
As the passengers exited the aircraft, 52-year-old Sonya Dockett was struck by lightning on the tarmac and later died.
“It was obvious she had taken a direct hit by the lightning,” a fellow passenger told WISTV. “She was bleeding from her forehead.”
I don’t see how the lawsuit can win- isn’t that just about the archetypal “Act of God”, as covered in the Force Majure clause of the Contract of Carriage?!
@George you would think. the argument seems to be that american airlines made the decision about when to deplane, waiting based on weather information, but to win you’d think the plaintiff would have to show negligence